OT: music I am mildly obsessed with right now

Sounds like something I'd enjoy.

Although:

What it sounds like: Bruce Springsteen meets The Arcade Fire.

So, like that one song on AF's second album?

SC will spit Coke out his nose if he knows this band, but Damone. They were on the Tony Hawk Downhill Jam soundtrack, and my 11-year-old daughter loves them.

So I got the album off iTunes and listed to the rest, and it's good pop punk. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's good guitar-based tunes I can listed to with my kid and not hit the mute button every minute.

Damone on MySpace

"Out Here All Night" is a damn catchy tune. "What We Came Here For" is pretty good, too.

/what the hell DO you call it when you DL it from iTunes? It's not a CD, but album just sounds so old!

and I'm, like 15 years late or something.

But Enter Sandman has been stuck in my head for over a week now. Fuckin' song won't go away. I tried playing it awhile on a loop the other day in an effort to MAKE myself sick of it. No dice.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing...but yeah...I got the album a week ago, and while I enjoyed it, it really didn't warrant that insane hype. I guess it's like the Strokes in 2001, but I actually LOVED that debut album.

Something that I guess is mildly embarrassing about me as a 33 year old heterosexual married guy....I absolutely love (bordering on obsessed with) Nicole Atkins. She has this great retro-pop torch-song sound, and is incredibly hot to boot.

Here's her from Letterman.

and here's her at SXSW covering one of my favorite songs of all time.

I loved Vampire Weekend, but it got kinda old. Not a very long album. Got kinda tired of it. I still feel good when one of their songs comes up on random, though.

Right now: Listening to some Bowie in a kind of haphazard fashion (mostly singles...lame, I know). Just got Colin Meloy's solo live album, which is kinda uneven, but did push me back into well-worn Decemberists territory.

Just making my way out of a heavy Imogen Heap obsession. She's dreamy.

sort of enjoy the new drive by truckers.

otherwise, been listening a lot to the cowboy junkies trinity session record, indestructible beat (per above) and a james mcmurtry compilation.

i AM obsessed w/ the jame mcmurtry song choctaw bingo.

I've been to Robbie Robertson's Broken Arrow obsessively lately. LOVE this song. And I hate the fact that Rod Stewart covered it. Along with Forever Young, Downtown Train, and this song, I'll forgive Rod these acts of treason.

The second record is pretty weak sauce, tho I still listen to the demos for the first record pretty regularly. I'd recommend grabbing the Grand Archives record. I go pretty limp for any ex-Carissa's Wierd band, and this is no exception.

Plus, the new Deep Sleep 7" is, as the kids say, the tits. If you like Adolescents/Descendents-style pop hardcore, snatch it up.

These are not brand new, but they're what I can't pry from my car's CD changer to save my life, so here you go:

I am totally down with The New Pornographers. I did not like it one iota the first time I heard it (same with Arcade Fire), but then it grew on me like a Spring Training porn 'stache.

I cannot shake Cut/Copy's "Hearts On Fire" from my brain for more than 5 minutes. Were you hungry for a new New Order? Here's a heaping plate-full of 80's electronic goodness that drips with Saturday morning cartoon commercials & sexy pop synth. Check out the bass line at the end. All that's missing is Bernard Sumner.

As long as I'm talking about electro-pop, JuniorBoys is some good shiznit. "So This is Goodbye" is much more upbeat than their first release & sounds like it was mixed by Timbaland on a very mellow afternoon.

If you don't know who Grand National is, go out & buy their first disc "Kicking the National Habit" right now. Then tell me if that isn't what The Police would sound like if they were formed in the early 00's.

And, just to wrap this up with some kick-ass guitar, The Raconteurs' new single "Consoler of the Lonely" is testament to the fact that whatever Jack White touches is instant gold, whether it be some homely drummer girl or an alleged super group. Dude may smuggle the occasional plum, but he's the white Jimmy Hendrix & LedZep reincarnated in my book.

Rockawn.

as when you people talk about music. I honestly haven't heard of most of the bands you guys mention whenever there is a music topic.

I was singing along to The Beatles "The End" the other day and Greta actually congratulated me on singing the right notes. I could not tell you what the right notes are if my life depended on it. Doesn't stop me from singing though. Much to the delight of my friends, I'd imagine.

Anyway, for what it's worth, I've been listening to a lot of Michael Jackson lately. Heh.

this band called dengue fever? i guess if i've heard of them, they must be getting a lot of hype...

kinda cool, though: sort of surf/psychedelic music w/ female vocalist singing in cambodian. i like it quite a bit, though haven't bought the record yet.